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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64485"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:45.301Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:37.025Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64485"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64485.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64485"
title: "ALSA: compress: Fix task creation error unwind"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: compress: Fix task creation error unwind\n\nsnd_compr_task_new() allocates the driver task before validating the\nreturned DMA buffers and reserving file descriptors. When either of\nthose later steps fails, the core frees its task wrapper and DMA-buffer\nreferences without calling the driver's task_free() callback. Any\ndriver resources allocated by task_create() are therefore leaked.\n\nThe dual-fd allocation path also jumps to cleanup without storing the\nnegative get_unused_fd_flags() result in retval. Since retval still\ncontains the successful task_create() return value, TASK_CREATE can\nincorrectly report success although the task was discarded.\n\nPreserve the fd allocation errors and call task_free() when failure\noccurs after a successful task_create() callback."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"04177158cf98a79744937893b100020d77e6f9ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b27a75d42044d9d4709095617730b91b1c4af423"},{"version":"04177158cf98a79744937893b100020d77e6f9ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"426a9947a38d272d0e19c031658da68e31128667"},{"version":"04177158cf98a79744937893b100020d77e6f9ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a60127debb9e370d6c0e22a307326b624a141f3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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